Haha. Please keep hands and wienerschnitzels in the tank at all times. I think the Ruskies will win but gonna do my part for ze Fatherland. PzB2, V/IV, 131, Indian Panzer and Waffle are gonna be busy trying to stop the Red horde.

Ive taken time off work and stocked up on caffene so i can flog the living daylights out of my 5/4 and the B2. Ill get points every match easilly while all the russian fan boys struggle with higher tiers, crap matchmaking & crap aim, ill be there in the B2 top tier all the way never seeing a KV nerf me 220 or anything else that would hurt me getting good points.

Sorry but the biggest thing working against Russia is that people are still sick of driving Russian tanks thanks to the fatherland op.

Then add in all the OP tanks belong to the Germans and you're talking bad news for the Russians. E50 e50m, tiger II, e75, WTE100, RMB, B2.

I stayed up for nights, grinded hundreds of games in the hope for a stupid set of medals. I got so fed up i now get a weird sick feeling just thinking about the stupid fatherland. Screw russian tanks. Will be happy to not drive one for a long long long time

Yeah, they are the #1 and #2 nations in this game. Seems kinda dumb they fight in the first round. Bad seeding is bad.

Who cares, the Germans will lose to Mother Russia sooner or later. Why wait for their inevitable defeat when we can get it out of the way sooner rather then later. This way Russia can settle the final IV all that much sooner since the Americans, the French, and the Japanese have no answer to the might of Stalin.

Who cares, the Germans will lose to Mother Russia sooner or later. Why wait for their inevitable defeat when we can get it out of the way sooner rather then later. This way Russia can settle the final IV all that much sooner since the Americans, the French, and the Japanese have no answer to the might of Stalin.

Then the weak French can claim they were runners up if they make the other side of the bracket.

Everybody is talking of the higher tiers. I think it will be decided in the mid to lower tiers. I've got my T127, Church3 and KV220 all ready to go.

This is the most valuable comment in trying to predict the outcome.

In any individual match one third of the tanks will have a good chance of finishing top 5 in their team (ie the top tier tanks). Whereas one third of the tanks in the match have the odds stacked against them (ie lower tier).

For this reason tanks with PMM (as well as tier 9 and 10 tanks) will have a disproportionate influence; because they will be better able to place in more of the matches played by those tanks.

In tankbowl you are competing against your own team for points - not the enemy team. 5 points from a crushing defeat is still 5 points.

My own tier by tier analysis (feel free to disagree)

10: both sides have competitive options (IS7/E100, waffle/objects, mediums) very close

9: also lots of options to score top 5 for both sides - very close

8: Borsig & Tiger 2 & Jagdtiger88 & Lowe will do well but so will the IS3 and Fatherlands. Germany should not lose this tier although again very close

7. Tigers; in every variant; should carry tier 7 matches comfortably for Germany

6. KV85 can do well but there are lots of good vk options for Germany. T34-88 will do well. Close

5. USSR: KV1, KV220 & Churchill 3 will consistently place top 5 here. The captured kv1 will get points but there are too few of these. Stugs (incl. Hidden) are good for Germany bit this tier should be USSR win

4. Pz B2 Should finish top 5 in almost every game they play but they are fairly uncommon. T-28 will do well and the Soviet TD is good and the Valentine II consistent. But the stand out tank at tier 4 for finishing top 5 in your team is the Marder 38t. As the German equivalent of the pre-nerf US T40 it has escaped the nerfbat and has the potential to completely dominate tier 4. View range and rate of fire is crazy and so important in placing. Hetzer is good as well. German win

3.Pz 1c vs Rassenai. The T127 and su76i might give Soviets a slight edge in this tier. Pz s35 will do ok in tier 3 matches.

Overall the predicted domination in tier 7 should be enough to carry the event for team Germany